WOLFFIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Wolffia mean? 

• WOLFFIA (noun)
  The noun WOLFFIA has 1 sense:

1. minute rootless aquatic herbs having globular fronds floating on or near the water surface and bearing one flower per frond

  Familiarity information: WOLFFIA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WOLFFIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Minute rootless aquatic herbs having globular fronds floating on or near the water surface and bearing one flower per frond

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Wolffia; Wolffia

Hypernyms ("Wolffia" is a kind of...):

liliopsid genus; monocot genus (genus of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed)

Meronyms (members of "Wolffia"):

watermeal (any of various aquatic plants of the genus Wolffia; throughout warmer regions of the world)

Holonyms ("Wolffia" is a member of...):

duckweed family; family Lemnaceae; Lemnaceae (family of small free-floating thalloid plants)